We're losing soil organic matter.

[Woodznutz]

The sheer amount of chemicals being dumped onto our soils should reveal that our soils are depleted.

In the U.S., approximately 14,900 thousand metric tons of nitrogen, 4,600 thousand metric tons of potassium chloride, and 6,500 thousand metric tons of phosphate were used in 2022. The majority of these fertilizers are applied to major crops such as corn, wheat, and soybeans, which account for a significant portion of total applications of these nutrients.

 

[Woodznutz]

Yawn, this has been going on for over 100 years now, they have learned much over time which is why they long ago stopped injecting soils with many bad chemicals and with numerous colleges training farmers and more to better husband their soils have been injecting weed killers, elements and seeds all in a single pass to reduce negative impacts on soils.

You are a pseudo environmentalists who push misleading crap because you don't understand shit.

Dream on. Farming today is nothing but hydroponic gardening on a vast scale. The only thing our depleted soils do is hold up the plants so they don't fall over.

I'm a true environmentalist and I've got the compost piles to prove it. I'm an experienced organic gardener who has brought depleted soils back to life. I do understand shit (manure).

 

[Sunsettommy]

Dream on. Farming today is nothing but hydroponic gardening on a vast scale. The only thing our depleted soils do is hold up the plants so they don't fall over.

I'm a true environmentalist and I've got the compost piles to prove it. I'm an experienced organic gardener who has brought depleted soils back to life. I do understand shit (manure).

You write this stupidity since plants will not grow much in depleted soils yet farms continues to increase their yields and they stay up well against winds because the soils are being adequately maintained over time with Fallow, crop rotations and more that you don't know anything about.

The only thing our depleted soils do is hold up the plants so they don't fall over.

You are so ignorant.

You never make any counterpoint to any of MY words, all you do here is do a cut and paste of some article which has been from an environmentalist website and then run away.

You are a proven ignoramus of the Soil Agronomy that has become a high demand course for many farmers in recent decades the yields keep going up which would be impossible if the soils were so damaged as YOU keep droning on do you even know what soil cation exchangeability process is?

They make their most money when their soils are their most healthy which is why many farmers try hard to maintain it. It is clear you are never on farms running your callus free hands through them because you are another ******* city slicker.

I did soils testing in many city parks early in my career with the city Park system in which the results backed up my initial statement that they were using too much nitrogen and too little micro elements as the crowns were thin and the roots shallow it was why the grasses were drying up so fast it was all top growth and little soil growth because they were overfertilizing the parks so much they were forced to abandon two fresh drinking 750 gallon/ minute each wells due to unhealthy nitrate levels, this in a near desert conditions BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Then for several years I did most of the fertilizing using a large two wheeled hopper and farm tractor that can hold 400 LBS of fertilizer in which the grasses in many parks got healthier and with thicker crowns with greatly reduced irrigation needs which in turn extended the life of the expensive sprinklers and the fertilizers lasted much longer in the horizon A zone for the crop to use.

After waiting for the empty office suits to realize they can get a 3" potable chlorinated water supply taken off a 11 acre city park by using the dormant well that can easily water the dam place, finally went to the city civil engineer after 5 years of waiting who agreed and lobbied the director about it, guess who had to install the pump and pipes for that deep well......., but it was my park to maintain and as the Irrigation specialist greatly benefitted from the much higher water and pressure flow then able to fill coverage gaps and reduce watering run times.

I have books on Organic Gardening some dating back to the early 1980's and been growing gardens organically since 1981 I am well aware of the importance of soil health.

 

[Woodznutz]

You write this stupidity since plants will not grow much in depleted soils yet farms continues to increase their yields and they stay up well against winds because the soils are being adequately maintained over time with Fallow, crop rotations and more that you don't know anything about.

I'm not talking about the farmlands that are properly managed. The Bureau of Land Management states that there are no available figures for land that is being fallowed. Maybe you can provide them.

You are so ignorant.

I'm not brainwashed or blind.

I have books on Organic Gardening some dating back to the early 1980's and been growing gardens organically since 1981 I am well aware of the importance of soil health.

I have the books by Sir Albert Howard that go way back. "The Soil and Health". He stated that America was the last best hope for proper agriculture. I'm sure he would be disappointed.

I get that you are steeped in labor-saving "sulfuric acid" agriculture, neglecting the fact that not everyone thinks that way. Some people genuinely enjoy work.